Example sentences of "[conj] i have [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It 's not that I 've anything against audiences , it 's just that when they 're a blur they 're so friendly — just one big smiley mess .
2 Not that I 've anything against Americans ; far from it .
3 I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted .
4 Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me .
5 Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself .
6 Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’
7 I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up
8 ‘ You see that I had you in my mind ! ’
9 ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’
10 ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’
11 Not that I have anything against ugliness .
12 Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage .
13 It 's not that I have anything against them per se , of course .
14 ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’
15 My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time .
16 I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket !
17 ‘ All he left was debts , and I 've nothing but what you can see . ’
18 ‘ They all look nice and happy on the television , and I 've nothing against them as individuals .
19 And I 've nothing in my hand . ’
20 And I 've nothing in my hand . ’
21 And I 've lots of other things to do .
22 It was early evening when I got into London 's vehicular scrummage and I had plenty of time to see Toby in hospital .
23 It was a pleasant thirty-two miles out to the private sanatorium operated by Dr. Hugo Zimmerman , and I had plenty of time to think about him .
24 SAD , disappointed and deeply frustrated : Lady Chatterley and I had plenty in common by the end of Sunday 's opening episode .
25 I felt that he and I had something in common .
26 I soon found that Bertha and I had nothing in common .
27 so they did n't come , and I did n't go out and Gemma came up and I was sitting there talking and they had a drop , drop of wine and I had one with erm and Gemma finished her biscuits up , we 've got to get some more biscuits now Gemma brings her
28 ‘ I bought my first one in 1974 and I had it at least ten years .
29 Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm
30 and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything .
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